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They Really Do Love Each Other Epic Fail Mundane Made Awesome Conspicuous CG Slap-Slap-Kiss Failed a Spot Check Department of Redundancy Department Punch-Clock Villain The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Big Eater All Men Are Perverts Flashback Honor Before Reason Ungrateful Bastard Green-Eyed Monster Obstructive Bureaucrat True Companions Reckless Gun Usage Rule of Funny Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Really Gets Around Psychopathic Manchild Reasonable Authority Figure The Vamp Damsel in Distress Large Ham Funny Foreigner Male Frontal Nudity Improbable Aiming Skills Alpha Bitch Star-Crossed Lovers Video Credits "Shaggy Dog" Story Red Shirt I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Crucified Hero Shot Authority Equals Asskicking Adult Fear Rasputinian Death Fourth Date Marriage Silence Is Golden A God Am I Homage Chekhov's Skill British Films Made of Iron Laser-Guided Karma Major Injury Underreaction Mighty Whitey Big Applesauce I Have Your Wife Slashed Throat Crazy-Prepared The '90s Plot Hole Cool Old Lady Heroic Sacrifice Victoria's Secret Compartment What Happened to the Mouse? Cluster F-Bomb He Who Fights Monsters Artistic License – Law The Dragon Jump Scare Cool Old Guy Neck Lift Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Death by Adaptation Important Haircut Badass Bookworm As You Know Exact Words Bullying a Dragon Drives Like Crazy Shirtless Scene Villain with Good Publicity Broken Bird The Smart Guy Jerkass Has a Point Deliberately Monochrome Apocalypse How She Cleans Up Nicely French Films No Celebrities Were Harmed Dirty Old Man Male Gaze Retirony For Want of a Nail Stuff Blowing Up Dirty Cop Insult Backfire Rule of Three Papa Wolf Gold Digger Parental Incest Kick the Dog Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Ghost Fiction Mercy Kill Kids Are Cruel Bowdlerise Dramatic Gun Cock Good Is Not Nice Your Cheating Heart Italian Films Zombie Stories Not Even Bothering with the Accent Training Montage Fan Disservice Bilingual Bonus The Casanova Creative Closing Credits Novelization Meaningful Background Event Evil Counterpart Death by Irony Final Girl Hero Antagonist Kick the Son of a Bitch Vitriolic Best Buds Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Fainting The Starscream Celebrity Paradox Determinator Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Married to the Job Facial Horror Manchild Comically Missing the Point The Mafia Scenery Gorn Historical Hero Upgrade Face–Heel Turn Bitch in Sheep's Clothing La Résistance Bond One-Liner Affectionate Parody The Hero Laughing Mad Sir Swears-a-Lot Race Against the Clock You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Get Out! Call-Forward Bring My Brown Pants Pay Evil unto Evil Red Eyes, Take Warning Setting Update Dressing as the Enemy Evil Sounds Deep Stealth Pun Morality Pet Genre Savvy Adaptational Villainy The Great Depression Serious Business Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Becoming the Mask Wrong Genre Savvy Depraved Bisexual Fish out of Water Obviously Evil Shower Scene Anyone Can Die "Awesome McCool" Name Gilligan Cut Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Dark Reprise Butt-Monkey Bland-Name Product Noodle Incident Cool Shades The Place Immune to Bullets Scare Chord Wham Shot Smoking Is Cool Fun with Acronyms Spanner in the Works Faking the Dead Annoying Younger Sibling Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Drugs Are Bad The Sociopath Air-Vent Passageway Bad Boss Time Skip Didn't Think This Through Real Life Foil Rewatch Bonus Chewing the Scenery Back from the Dead Dull Surprise Yandere Despair Event Horizon Action Genre Demoted to Extra Straight Gay Sexy Discretion Shot Not So Above It All Only Known by Their Nickname Unusual Euphemism Evil Plan Undying Loyalty Race Lift Adaptation Distillation Early-Bird Cameo Ominous Latin Chanting Karmic Death Heel Realization Bound and Gagged Five-Man Band Stock Footage Cloudcuckoolander The Un-Reveal Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Heroic BSoD Mistaken for Gay Affably Evil Take a Third Option Redshirt Army Refuge in Audacity Cold-Blooded Torture Public Domain Feature Films Eyepatch of Power Arranged Marriage Wounded Gazelle Gambit 20 Minutes into the Future My Beloved Smother N-Word Privileges Off-into-the-Distance Ending Unresolved Sexual Tension Big Bad Disproportionate Retribution Darker and Edgier Motor Mouth Sadistic Choice Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Nice Hat Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Composite Character Awesome, but Impractical Dirty Coward Gainax Ending Dissonant Serenity Lighter and Softer Real Life Writes the Plot Scenery Porn "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Kill It with Fire Running Gag Manipulative Bastard Names to Run Away from Really Fast Pyrrhic Victory All Just a Dream Let's Get Dangerous! Mama Bear Leave the Camera Running O.O.C. Is Serious Business Evil Laugh Meaningful Echo Works Set in World War II Casting Gag Twist Ending Riddle for the Ages Russian Films The Faceless Unreliable Narrator Stalker with a Crush Distracted by the Sexy Artistic License – History Black Best Friend Adapted Out Punny Name Covers Always Lie Exactly What It Says on the Tin Hidden Depths Costume Porn For the Evulz Rich Bitch Interrupted Suicide Martial Arts Movie Random Events Plot Easily Forgiven Berserk Button Henpecked Husband Determinator aka: The Determinator Sealed Evil in a Can Documentary Those Two Bad Guys Anti-Villain Killed Mid-Sentence Not Using the "Z" Word Gone Horribly Right Gratuitous English Sacrificial Lion All for Nothing Extreme Doormat Word of God Crazy Jealous Guy Eiffel Tower Effect Too Dumb to Live Cool Guns No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Only in It for the Money Music Stories Serial Killer Break the Haughty Plucky Comic Relief Off with His Head! 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I Need a Freaking Drink What the Hell, Hero? Fat Bastard Stepford Smiler Fingore Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Body Horror Tap on the Head Instant Death Bullet Catapult Nightmare Recycled IN SPACE! Children Are Innocent Deliberate Values Dissonance Funny Background Event Shipper on Deck It's All About Me Paper-Thin Disguise The Mole Narrator Dwindling Party Agony of the Feet Deconstruction Throwing Your Sword Always Works Pimped-Out Dress The Dreaded Reality Is Unrealistic Actor Allusion Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Due to the Dead From Nobody to Nightmare Beauty Is Never Tarnished Animal Motifs Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Oner The Load Cain and Abel Ship Tease Four-Temperament Ensemble Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Older Than They Look Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Ax-Crazy Spiteful Spit As Long as It Sounds Foreign Cat Fight Man on Fire You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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NO INDOOR VOICE No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Dutch Angle Eldritch Abomination Badass Longcoat Pet the Dog The Quiet One Badass in a Nice Suit Earn Your Happy Ending Black Comedy Rape Totally Radical The Musical Creepy Child Guile Hero Line-of-Sight Name Stealth Hi/Bye The Bully Men Are the Expendable Gender Evil Brit Fantasy Films I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Redemption Equals Death Not Quite Dead Playing Gertrude Poor Communication Kills Calling the Old Man Out Not So Stoic Show Within a Show Wretched Hive Put on a Bus The Lost Lenore Dying Moment of Awesome Abusive Parents Every Car Is a Pinto Mooks Spared by the Adaptation Freudian Excuse Shown Their Work Military and Warfare Films Posthumous Character Broken Pedestal Death of a Child Dual Wielding Malevolent Masked Men Meaningful Name Rule of Cool The Stoner Chekhov's Gunman Never Found the Body Defiant to the End Improvised Weapon Tagline Stylistic Suck Ambiguously Gay Badass Boast folderlabel Bittersweet Ending Irony One-Word Title Whole Plot Reference Hong Kong Films Kill 'em All Smug Snake Eye Scream Last-Name Basis Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Drowning My Sorrows Ambiguous Disorder Disappeared Dad Gender Flip It Will Never Catch On Handicapped Badass Light Is Not Good Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Bi the Way In Name Only The Cameo Adaptation Name Change Mood Whiplash Anachronism Stew Tranquil Fury Hate Sink Amusing Injuries Unspoken Plan Guarantee timeperiod Suspiciously Specific Denial Adaptation Expansion Accidental Misnaming Psychological Thriller Toplessness from the Back Hoist by His Own Petard Science Fiction Films Small Name, Big Ego Overly Long Gag Insane Troll Logic Pretty in Mink Those Two Guys Shut Up, Hannibal! Pre-Mortem One-Liner Hair-Trigger Temper Breaking the Fourth Wall Expository Hairstyle Change Action Prologue Dumb Blonde Chiaroscuro A Minor Kidroduction Daddy's Girl Historical In-Joke Amoral Attorney Eagleland My Greatest Failure A.I. Is a Crapshoot Mad Scientist And the Adventure Continues Aluminum Christmas Trees Daylight Horror Christmas Movies Index Ass Shove In Medias Res The '50s Big "NO!" Destination Defenestration Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Catch-Phrase Love Triangle Curb-Stomp Battle And I Must Scream Advertised Extra Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Super Strength Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Camp Gay Precision F-Strike Boom, Headshot! Knight Templar Protagonist Title Here We Go Again! Pragmatic Adaptation Suspiciously Similar Substitute Dramatic Irony Blackmail Guns Akimbo My God, What Have I Done? Parental Neglect Dogged Nice Guy Woman Scorned Diabolus ex Machina Badass Grandpa Dramedy Spiritual Successor Spell My Name with an "S" Fake Shemp Heterosexual Life-Partners Trailers Always Spoil One Steve Limit Title Drop No OSHA Compliance Evil-Detecting Dog Actually Pretty Funny Grievous Bottley Harm Friend to All Children Corpsing Getting Crap Past the Radar Shout-Out Scary Black Man Woman in White Black Comedy Police Brutality Biopic Empathic Environment Expy Slasher Smile Evil Is Hammy Wicked Cultured The Lancer Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Humiliation Conga Bare Your Midriff Historical-Domain Character Greater-Scope Villain Black and Gray Morality Black Dude Dies First Horror Films Dark Is Not Evil Humans Are Bastards Captain Obvious War Is Hell No Name Given Bald of Evil She's Got Legs Film Noir Adaptational Badass Hypocrite Horror Comedy An Arm and a Leg Mythology Gag The Alcoholic Not What It Looks Like No Ending Anti-Hero Once More, with Clarity! Slasher Movie Sole Survivor An Axe to Grind Loads and Loads of Characters The Brute MacGuffin Deal with the Devil Death Glare Anachronic Order Jerkass Vacation Films And Starring Book-Ends Heroes Want Redheads Manly Tears Brainless Beauty Arc Words Worthy Opponent Better to Die than Be Killed Continuity Nod Betty and Veronica Dies Wide Open Auto Erotica Extremely Short Timespan Mind Screw The '70s Double Entendre Fire-Forged Friends Manic Pixie Dream Girl Blood Knight German Films The Bad Guy Wins Up to Eleven Face Death with Dignity Be Careful What You Wish For Animated Credits Opening Same Language Dub Eureka Moment All There in the Script What You Are in the Dark "Well Done, Son!" Guy The Ace Very Loosely Based on a True Story Needs Wiki Magic Love Card-Carrying Villain It Can Think Darkest Hour Villainous Breakdown Establishing Character Moment Sequel Hook Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Your Head A-Splode Taking You with Me Reality Ensues Villain Ball Insistent Terminology Creator Cameo Cowboy Cop The Alleged Car Loophole Abuse Red Right Hand Did Not Get the Girl Alliterative Name Cat Scare Film Noir Index Ms. Fanservice Central Theme Does Not Like Shoes Chekhov's Gun Meet Cute Brick Joke Never My Fault Naïve Newcomer The X of Y Bloodier and Gorier Red Herring Bavarian Fire Drill All There in the Manual Together in Death Madness Mantra Deadpan Snarker Police are Useless Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Hope Spot Double-Meaning Title The Big Guy Defrosting Ice Queen Nothing Is Scarier Big-Bad Ensemble Fanservice BFG Country Matters Hell Is That Noise Knife Nut Visual Pun Only a Flesh Wound In the Back Sassy Black Woman Take That! Blatant Lies Broken Aesop Hooker with a Heart of Gold Intergenerational Friendship Offscreen Teleportation Imagine Spot Sports Stories Big Damn Heroes Fate Worse than Death Self-Deprecation Beware the Nice Ones Disney Death Neck Snap Flipping the Bird Karma Houdini Truth in Television He Knows Too Much Japanese Films Jerk Jock The Ditz Vomit Discretion Shot Overprotective Dad The Atoner